Your Own Kind of Fabulous!

Happy Friday!!!
Stopping in to share a super cute little image with you from our most recent release at Sami Stamps!

This card is nothing like what I originally envisioned for it. I used Mr. Pencil Peep on this card, but he was totally giving me a Harry Potter vibe from the beginning! I tried so hard to come up with a great idea to turn it into that, but nothing was working out. So I switched gears and want with something else.

I still wanted this cutie to be colored like Hedwig though...or at least like a white snowy owl. So I fussed around with that for a good long while. I didn't want to do just flat shading, I wanted there to be feathers and puffs...not sure it looks like that...but he's still cute :)

Then I set to working on my background. I decided to do some ink blending around an embossed frame. So, using my rubber embossing mat in my Cuttlebug, I embossed this fun design into my card front and then created a mask so I could ink the background around it. After that was done, I cut out my owl and was starting to assemble everything, but really felt like the whole card was too plain.

So I put the die back into place that I had used for the embossing, and then used the same inks to blend on the inside of the frame. Having the frame in place allowed for there to still be this nice white border so there is separation between the inside and outside areas. Once it was all colored, I flicked on some white, black, and purple shimmer sprays. Much better! Plus now if you look close, you can see that his glasses are see through!

I printed just his glasses onto some transparency! Cutting them apart was a bit tough but you just have to take it slow and really focus. Before I adhered the transparent glasses, I outlined the eyes and added the white highlights in with a white gel pen so that they were a little bit bolder. The transparency was dulling them down a bit so they needed some touching up. Then I took some glossy accents and added little dots to the eyes and stuck the "glasses" down! Worked like a charm!

I embossed my sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Beautiful Life set onto some vellum and then flagged the ends and added it to my card with tiny strips of foam tape. Scattered a few shimmy dots of glossy accents around the card and it was done!

You have just a few more days to enter our Anything Goes challenge, so don't miss out! Just be sure to use a Sami Stamps image!!

9 comments:

Emily, like your card says, you are fabulous! I love your card. Delightful image--awesome colouring. The background is simply marvelous. What a terrific job you did with the colour blending. Love the glasses too!Thanks for sharing your card with us at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge.Hugs,Norma

Such a cute image, I LOVE it and you have coloured it so beautifully. Wow loving the vellum sentiment, it really makes it all POP!!! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us at Fussy and Fancy!!! Crafty Cuddles Jay xx

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